Second Ward Condos Charlotte, NC

The history of Second Ward reaches back to the beginning of the 19th century where the very diversified community of Second Ward thrived for several decades. The neighborhood of "Brooklyn", taken from Brooklyn New York in the early 1900's, represented a self-sustainable town within a town. The thriving mixed use neighborhood featured business ranging from J.R. Hemphill, Real Estate Man and Tailor; N.H. Tomas, Shoemaker; ACME Pressing Club; Eagles Drub Store; several barber shops and other neighborhood businesses all within the economically diverse neighborhood of Brooklyn. It was the home to some of the most wealthy and educated, as well as poor and uneducated portions of the black community.

In 1904, it provided Charlotte with Brevard Street Library, the first free black library in the South, in 1923 it established Second Ward High School, the first urban black high school in Charlotte, as well as establishing Clinton Chapel AME Zion Church which remains a part of the current Second Ward.

In 2001, the City of Charlotte issued a proposal for the redevelopment of Second Ward. This includes the introduction of:

* An Urban School
* Diversity of Housing
* Green Streets
* Neighborhood Park
* Strong Connectivity to adjacent Neighborhoods

The Ratcliffe

The Ratcliffe is quite possibly the most prestigious of all the Uptown properties. Located on N. Tryon Street in the heart of the Center City and sitting on "The Green", living in the Ratcliffe grants you instant access to the best of Charlotte. Units feature granite counter tops, and hardwood floors.

Built in 2002, The neat things about the Ratcliffe are: underground parking deck with new and great interactive passive park on the top which includes fish fountains, built-in cement chess boards on stone tables, landscape walkways with motion activitated stone walls that make nature sounds, built in hopscotch on the ground, several built in riddles on the ground, neat statues of books, international street signs, and more.

This is a really interactive and yet stimulating passive park or public space. The Ratcliffe Residential Building is named after the historic flower shop on the ground level that was moved and then replaced in its original position with the new building built around it. The new building itself is attractive to look at and offers a neat and unique addition to downtown Charlotte.

The park is surrounded by 60,000 square feet of retail and office space. Restaurants and retail shops will open to the park from a European-style arcade positioned along one side of the park and a three-story brick and glass building on the opposite side, overlooking the park.

 




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